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Dear Mama!

I received your letter with news about your trip along the Volga and Kama and with your new address. I too have just had to give a new address. From Paris I have gone very far this summer — to Cracow. Almost Russia! And the Jews look like Russians, and the Russian border is 8 versts away (by train from the Border about two hours, from Warsaw 9 hours), bare-footed women in motley dresses — just like Russia. My address here is:

Herrn Wl. Ulijanow

Zwierzyniec. L. 218.

Oesterreich. Krakau.

I wish you and Anuya a good rest and a more pleasant ride along the Volga. The heat is beginning to set in strongly. On the river, I suppose, it will be pleasant.

As regards Manyasha, one must hope — given what they told you — that they won't be able to keep her long.

Greetings to Mark!

Please send me, my dear, Mitya's address.

We have had much time taken up with new arrangements. We have settled for the summer outside the city — near a dacha district called "Salvator." We do not yet know Polish. There are many difficulties and much fuss.

E. V. is ill — something like pneumonia.

I embrace you warmly, my dear, and send my best regards to Anya.

E. V. and N. K. send their best regards and embrace you.

Your V. Ulyanov

In the 4th edition of the Works

Sent to Saratov

First published in 1957

of V. I. Lenin, volume 37

Printed from the manuscript